If you ever get a chance to actually operate an excavator or other heavy equipment, it is shockingly satisfying! I don't know that I'd want to do it 40+ hours a week, but I certainly see the appeal.

My childhood ('90's-00's) involved a lot of smashing up plastic sleds by pulling them around a pasture behind a pickup truck (and later a four wheeler). I don't recall a plastic model that survived more than a day or two of frozen cow pies and tree roots, but we eventually dug up an antique wooden toboggan that we beat to hell, but which as far as I remember is still in one piece, sitting in some rafters at my parents house.

Not totally relevant to this post, but it was fun! We lived in an area too flat for any proper snow sports so it was the next best thing. I suspect that my wife and I will have a heated debate one day about whether our children will get to do this...